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2025 spring season in Charlotte ranks 2nd warmest spring on record. How will summer feel?
CHARLOTTE (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — The 2025 spring season will go down in the record books, tied for the second warmest spring for Charlotte.
The list above shows the top five warmest springs in Charlotte's history, this year's spring tied with 1991 for the second warmest spring on record. Charlotte had the fourth warmest spring last year.
The spring season has been warming at an alarming rate across the United States, including here in Charlotte. The Queen City has warmed three degrees over the past five decades according to Climate Central.
The spring season started off pretty dry across the Carolinas, but we did get into more of a wetter pattern right at the end of the season. Overall, Charlotte ended the meteorological spring season with the 85th wettest spring on record, recording 10.27″ of rainfall.
Now we head into meteorological summer, where the Climate Prediction Center is projecting a warmer and wetter than average summer for the Carolinas.
Charlotte summers are getting warmer as well, with over two degrees of warming over the last five decades.
The Queen City has also added on average almost a month's worth of warmer-than-normal days over the last 50 years according to Climate Central.
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